The LSB is in transition.
Our sister publication Freshmeat
is carrying a (last?)
editorial on LSB which announces the death of the LSB: few
people felt it was necessary to have a very tightly defined "standard distribution"
from which all other distributions would diverge only a little.
Indeed, Linux's diversity enables Linux to be tailored for different applications
or cultural needs. A common filesystem/library policy, the
LCS will resolve most of the compatability issues. Vendors who
insist on supplying binaries only will know which libraries
they can depend on being in the system, and which they should statically link in.
Update: The LSB is not officially dead, but "in
transition". Nevertheless the above editorial blows some
rather large holes into its current incarnation.
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The LSB is in transition.
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